skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S3 does not have real USB support (in the same way that any STM32 with "USB support" does) - it has a USB-UART/JTAG device that you cannot redefine built-in.

(edit: apparently it might? I can't find the documents on how to actually use the OTG device over the fixed IP)
There are two colliding views here - one is that Israel is acting in good faith, and the other - that Israel is on a campaign of cruelty. For the believers in the former, i want to bring two facts:

> tightly controlled land border

for people who think border is there for security, you should be aware that Israel has, for years, blocked imports of essential sanitary products and food items into Gaza, i.e. toilet paper, soap, and humus. Many of the tunnels under gaza were built for smuggling in these items. United states has long protested this policy:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE52A5TA/

> Failure of the peace process

in 1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by Israeli religious extremist to sabotage the peace process

> The perpetrator was Yigal Amir, a 25-year-old former Hesder student and far-right law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir had strenuously opposed Rabin's peace initiative, particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords, because he felt that an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank would deny Jews their "biblical heritage which they had reclaimed by establishing settlements".
yeah i think we are at a point of reflection in philosophy of mind, where we ponder if that our "thinking", our communication and dialogues are mechanistic continuations taking place serially in one or more brains
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Which impacted country are you in?
Absolute cope.
IMHO, Open Source is often misunderstood by companies as free code as in cheap, when in fact it should be seen as collaborative code that aims to avoid redundancy, saving companies countless hours of development, research, fixing compatibility issues and so on, due to such collaborative union between all the developers, mainly the maintainer(s), albeit at the cost of sometimes excessively generic non-performing code, and, here we go, albeit at the cost of potential security vulnerabilities that keep requiring an investment that has been largely ignored.

Perhaps companies should take the necessary reversal for the security of their business and create roles within the organization as guys who exclusively and actively revise the code being used, at the same time as internally classifying the integrity of genuine maintainers to ensure that bad guys don't get paychecks from either the company and the community, by showing facts.

It doesn't solve the problem, but I think it should be a generalized procedure, not just something that very few big companies seem to be doing, and one can see it's not enough.

Ironically, most companies ignoring the issue appear to be targets.

Although it did cross my mind that maybe such companies are not just misunderstanding open source as free code as in cheap, but maybe they also consider the security issues and repercussions as cheap; and if this is what is happening, maybe governments across the glove should impose large fines for data leaks and vulnerabilities in their systems, proportional to the company's revenues, proportional as in making them invest in security. in addition to what the article suggest.

I don't know. I'm just thinking loudly, certainly the problem is not easy to solve.
I've been following Jeremy's blog for some years now and although I don't always understand everything, I appreciate it for being a relatively accessible look into the research that's going on.

> you can implement ciphertext-ciphertext multiplication: x.y = ((x^2 + y^2) - (x^2 - y^2))/4

However this one part confused me - the RHS seems to simplify to y^2 / 2. Is there a mistake here or is this specific to the polynomial fields being worked in? (Or am I being dumb?)
I'm rooting for Zed. Used it for a few months at the start of this year, but came back to VSCode. I think Zed can potentially be a replacement for Sublime Text or equivalent, but it's far from one for VSCode. There's too much missing currently and too many bugs (at least from when I last used back in March).
> In other words, in the absence of RoI measures, the percent of engineering time spent on value-add activities is a pretty good proxy for productivity.

What about using self-rated satisfaction of your workers in terms of how happy they are with their engineering solutions? I find that when I solve a really nice problem and add something that is cool, or fix a very annoying bug, I feel very satisfied with the result. Whereas, I have produced things in the past (when I worked as a programmer) that seemed to make management happy that I wasn't satisfied with, and it seemed to me at least that the results weren't as useful in the end.
Overdue for Steam to forbid the practice.
Same energy is needed for the kernel-level anti-cheat software, which ought to be a dealbreaker for Helldivers IMO
You mean like the US blocks all efforts to ban putting weapons in space?
I wish the best luck in new challenges for the Sony intern who was responsible for the decision to consider PSN as mandatory in the first place. No one could see this happening.
We're really struggling to find good people. We do it the old fashioned way, just a one hour 4 dev interview. We don't ask really tough questions or anything. An example is, "can you describe normalization and what it's for?" I think the market is just supersaturated with bads right now and all the bads are the ones applying.

The good developers we have we got from knowing them in previous jobs, etc. You might wanna hit up your current team to find better devs. You should probably pay your team a finder's fee if you hire from that. Also, if you are paying what you paid before covid, it's probably too low today.

Times are tough for building good teams right now. You need to adapt. The same ole "call a recruiter and get 1 good guy out of 10," isn't a thing anymore. You might wanna pay 10-20% over market and see if that works. To justify that, just calculate what you are paying to not find good people now.
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The days of loading up physical media, installing, and playing the game are gone.

Publishers have been hard for micro transactions. That’s the whole reason for it. Maybe they are also siphoning your usage data, but that’s mainly a side hustle at this point.

Why cut a piece off for Steam when they can bypass them entirely and force users to buy directly?
When I know it's important to decipher something later, I have a 100% accurate decoding rate on my own handwriting, so that's not a problem. It's not hard to write clearly and carefully. In addition, they give you ten codes to use, so you'd need to make indecipherable errors in all of them. Also, having a safe place to store documents is table stakes for adulthood.
I’m reading all this with sadness realizing that one of the Internet’s last remaining high trust spaces is being destroyed.
> integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally not something we will support or allow

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-and-nfts

Don't ruin Minecraft with crypto scams
It's the same line of reasoning as praising street robbers who run away before committing a crime because they accidentally target a dangerous person.
> Nothing resembling modernity is possible with horses being the primary mode of transportation. Or bicycles, for that matter.

Amsterdam has somehow managed to solve it (with bikes, not horses). I think the biggest blocker is people unwilling to give up their unhealthy lifestyles. But there must be a way out of that. Amsterdam used to be a car-centric city too.

> Let me know when bicycles can deliver food to cities

They’re already doing that in Hungary, I thought this was commonplace everywhere.

I do admit that cars have many valid use cases, but everyday personal transportation is rarely one of them. They are massively overused. Most of the problems cars solve were caused by cars to begin with, and most of the problems caused by cars are exacerbated by cars instead of being solved by them. It’s a negative spiral.
Because rt.com is reachable in Sweden just fine, including sub-sites.

See discussion further down thread, but basically the block in Sweden seems to be on the ISP level and depends on which ISP you have. I can access rt.com via work wifi, but not not over mobile data via Telia. Another user who has Telia as their home ISP cannot access rt.com from home either.
Content is being banned because the governments don't think the citizens collectively can handle that content. This is the government thinking for the people. I wouldn't have an issue if it was really argued and debated, but I don't really see that happening. It is mostly just the government unilaterally deciding that said content is bad and banning it with no really possibility for debate. It isn't too hard to imagine a situation where content would help citizens but harm the government, and who is really deciding what to ban in such a case.

Countries are seeing how much banning content helps governments in places like China, and want that easy "solution" to their problems instead of doing the difficult thing of properly educating citizens and cultivating free and open discourse.

I guess my analogy is bad because it is debatable if fast food, in itself, is bad for you. My issue with your analogy is that the use of violence is abused by governments so much more than it is every used correctly (if that is even possible) and that all citizens would benefit from governments condemning violence. The reason governments don't condemn violence isn't because their use of violence helps citizens, it is because their use of violence helps themselves. And the same thing goes for banning content. So I guess your analogy is actually pretty good,
just counterproductive to your point.
I think this is sort of a "barbell effect" thing. Both models can work very well, but you can't really do both, you have to pick your approach and commit to it.

This reminds me of something I realized fairly late (maybe embarrassingly so) into my career. For the longest time, I had all these opinions about how software should be made, that is, universally, and would often feel very frustrated and discontented because nobody seemed to want to do things the right way.

But then I finally realized at some point that what was really going on was that different projects can be very different, and different approaches make more sense for different things. To use extreme examples, a single instance of a typical website-with-some-behavior vs. the control systems for a spacecraft. It's perfectly fine to build that website in a blitz using a CMS or framework with bog standard components and limited testing. But all you're going to manage with that same approach in the latter case is to crash your spacecraft.

But I also realized that where I was going wrong was in trying to impose my desires onto whatever project I happened to be working on, rather than imposing them onto my choice of what to work on. So I started thinking harder about what kinds of things I wanted to do, and being more deliberate in finding those projects, and convincing people to bring me onto them. (With somewhat mixed success of course... career development is hard enough when just going with the flow, let alone adding on conditions...)

To bring it back on topic, the analogy I'm drawing is: If you really want to do formal verification in all your projects, you shouldn't work on websites! And if you really want to pay attention to all the small little niceties, you shouldn't build a business with tight margins that are made up in volume!
Likely the only team that isn't trying to spend all their time on wayland and touching x11 only when forced.
The sources I've seen point out plenty of places. They may be overoptimistic. But excavation is really expensive, and in a competitive market, you cannot just throw money at the problem. It's the same reason nuclear fission is dead in many markets.
Use it for 50% of my dev work now. It has improved significantly in the last six months. The vim support is quite decent already.

Search hasn't been an issue for me yet. It feels instant and I like that I can use my keyboard for browsing search results in one view, just like in Sublime. Might depend on the project size, although I use it on bigger projects, too.

The one thing I'm missing is Git support. After getting used to Gitlens, it's really hard to move back to the command line.
I use jq extensively, and my jq commands often stretch multiple lines.

But I haven't stuffed jq into a production pipeline.

I worked with Perl for years. I don't need to go back to that.

Not sure I fit the demography after all.
hehe.

"wasn't that the guy where I got my baguette recipe from?"

goes searching

"it WAS! beautiful. Then this guide here surely will also be fun"
Seems like we're getting closer and closer to Star Trek's universal translator
I actually have gotten free Vita-Preps on occasion by doing events with the company. Most everything Vitamix has made for years has all sorts of that stuff. They thankfully still have a base line that is simple.
Yeah, absolutely. But the type matters to the kind of solution.
They sold a product, collected money and then disabled it to a large chunk of customers that live in countries that don't have PSN.

This is textbook corporate asshole behavior.
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> The force of the water on the air/water interface is dependent not on the reservoir volume, but on the weight of the water in the column (which depends only on the height of the shaft).

Just wanted to highlight this, since it's the key insight which caused this to "click" for me.

The difference between a 1km shaft and a 1km deep reservoir, when both are used for pumped hydro, is the amount of energy stored. Running a turbine at the bottom of the shaft (to where?!) would drain very quickly. But using air, which has very different properties, enables you to use the water as a "piston" to keep the air at a certain constant pressure underground. And you can store a larger volume of (more compressible) air in a space which is easier to access.
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No, it's not fine at config. It's a bag of weird corner cases and incompatible revisions which you have to debug instead of doing your actual work.

Here's a good summary: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...
Although this is true in a mathematical sense, it's also mathematically true that there are exactly 100 times as many numbers between 0 and 100 than between 0 and 1. Yay infinity!
> so many people would have been locked out of what they paid for.

And that's an important point, Helldivers is not an f2p game, it's a $40 upfront game, with cosmetic IAPs on top.
>History will not look kindly at both sides here, they really have no higher moral ground than the other

There are four sides here: the Israeli government, Hamas, Israeli citizens, and Palestinian citizens. The first two are the active combatants. The third group were victims in October. The fourth group are still victims today. Killing unarmed and non-hostile citizens is absolutely immoral. Acting in such a reckless way that the majority of casualties are citizens is still immoral.

History will look harshly on Hamas for slaughtering thousands of Israeli citizens, and Israel for slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens. No rational person should think those citizens were at fault.
Praise? They were caught with their pants down. They fixed the issue after realizing how it’s impacting their bottom line (massive refunds across the PC users).

I have no doubt if refunds were not an issue, then Sony would have given gamers the equivalent of a middle finger.

Forget your privacy concerns.
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Would probably be seen by governments as anti competitive and abusing their monopoly position.
Global violent deaths have been trending downward consistently since ww2, even given our new “permanent war” status. We simply just don’t have large-scale wars anymore.
Helldivers 2 also includes a rootkit, this time as anti-cheat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard
That’s not their job, and they already do what they need to: it requires disclosure in the games page/metadata. Customers can make an informed choice, except for cases like this where it’s changed post release.
>The publishers wish to somehow capture the players with their own launchers, but this is never going to do them any good and is widely hated.

Nah, if it was possible to sign up for PSN accounts, people would have hated it but done it. Look at how Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA, and other enshittified game companies still sell gajillions of copies.

It's inaccurate to lump in the actual reason for change (game being unavailable in regions) vs. a reason no game company has ever been motivated to change ("we don't like making thirdparty accounts").
Pro tip: Some people do not consider their natural voice 'their' voice.
No mention of how efficient the energy cycle is? Without checking sources, I think I've read that batteries and pumped hydro end up in the 80-90% range round trip? Without knowing what this method produces it's almost pointless to consider.

One advantage this has (I assume) is almost limitless cycle lifespan.
The best way to cure this is to write something in 50 lines to show the world how it's done, and wager a large donation to e.g. the trump election campaign if you leave a public ticket unfixed for more than a week. As soon as you try to interface with other people's workflows and needs, the 50 lines turn into thousands very quickly.
I cannot read this without laughing out loud, thinking about the crap Apple has been getting for having exactly such policies in their app store.
I don't have anything against people going their own way but having been on both ends of this kind of rumble in open source my resounding opinion is that you literally cannot please the aggrieved side.

It's a mixture of many things — some people are reasonable and just want sensible change, others are dangerous neurotics who need to go outside; both can end up, deliberately or not, using it as blackmail for control — but the moment the ball gets rolling it's pretty much impossible to stop.

I'd bail if a BDFL was an avowed Nazi but the bar for some just seems to be ridiculously low to the point where it's hard to imagine any (offline) social aptitude.

I'm not sure what gave me the impression but even from skimming the nix discourse the community's emergent personality did seem a bit snowflake-ish.

I've heard people make a kind of reverse-conway argument about Rust attracting (auth-) leftists, perhaps for another time...
there's core77 [0], which has been around for awhile. it is industrial design focused and they surface interesting things from time to time.

[0] https://www.core77.com
But then that isn't the goal: totally preventing you from ever seeing Al Jazeera or somesuch. As you noted: that'd be curtailment of freedoms only befitting dictatorships. Nobody wants that.

Making it slightly more difficult to consume outright propaganda by not having it front and center; that seems to me to be a very much acceptable move for democratic and free states to make in the context of information warfare.
By 1942 no one really had doubts about that. I mean, the Einstein–Szilard letter was written in 1939 and Bohr mentioned in lectures also in 1939 the bomb is possible but he didn't think it was possible to produce enough weapons grade uranium within the timeframe of the war. He couldn't foresee, no one could, really, what the US could do when determined.
I appreciate then when you're not an expert in physics, statistics and so on, all you have to go on are these circumstantial arguments, "two things that seem similar to me are alike, therefore they are alike in the same way".

However, I am making no such argument. I am explaining that statistical models of pixel frequencies cannot model the causes of those frequencies. I am illustrating this point with an example, not proving it.

If you want more detail about the reason it cannot: when the back of a coffee cup looks like the front, you can generate the back. But you cannot generate the bottom. (assuming the bottom doesn't occur in the dataset) -- why? Because the pixel distributions for the bottom of a cup have zero information about the rest of it.. and the model has no information about the bottom.

If you want a "proof" you'd need at least to be familiar with applied mathematics and the like:

Say the RGB value of each pixel, X of photos of coffee cups obtains from a data generating process parameterized on: distance from camera, lens focal length, angle to cup, lighting conditions, etc. Now produce a model of such causes, call it Environment(distance, angle, cup albedio,...).

Then show that X ~ E|fixed-paramerters induces a frequency distribution of pixels, f1(next|previous) = P(Xi...n|Xj...n); then for any variation in a fixed parameter induces a completely different distribution, say f2, f3, f4, ... Now check that the covariance distribution for most pairs of fs, shows that any given f is almost zero-informative about any other f.

Having done this, compare with a non-statistical (eg., video game) model of Environment where parameters are varied.. and show that all frames, say v, of the video game generated do have high covariance over the time of their sampling. The video game model covaries with most f1..fn; for the associative statistical model it only covaries with f1, or a very small number of others.

There's something very obvious about this if you understand how these statistical AI systems work: in cases where variations in the environment induce radically different distributions the AI will fail; in cases where they are close enough, they will (appear) to succeed.

The marketability of generative AI comes from rigging the use cases to situations where we don't need to change the environment. ie., you aren't exposed to the fact that when you generated a photo you could not have got the same one "at a different distance".

If a video game was built this way it would be unplayable: consider every time you move the camera all the objects randomly change their apparent orientation, distance, style, etc.
Longhorn was a complete rewrite. That memo served its purpose.
>>How have you heard more about TikTok and Israel than TikTok and china? How is that possible??

Inside "Congressional circles" as clearly written in my post. And I should have added within the past few months.

>>India banned TikTok in 2020 accusing Chinese influence, are they time travelers?

India can have its own reasons, my argument is limited to the United States and that too, through wooing Congress

>>Did israel convince all of these countries to ban TikTok?

I didn't say that, of-course not.

>>Wow the Jewish World Domination Forum is really pushing its weight around lately.

I like you... I mean the way you classified me into your world view, twisted my arguments. You think, I will now defend a conspiracy of "Jewish World Domination"? Very impressive sir!
With the additional distinction between not screwing customers by choice, because of a prosocial attitude towards people and markets, and (like in this case) not screwing the users as an emergency fallback plan, after boldly trying to.